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Years following the lads

Barney Mackem 13 said:
What are we all upto years wise following the lads? I do appreciate that some may have just joined the journey and that is cool. We are all chosen at different times of our lives...

Was just wondering

42 years for me, and just to add, I never thought I would ever see Europe. I thought the Reid years were great, this is something different
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45....

Exciting days ahead?
 
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i remember going next door in 1973 to watch the cup final as they had a colour telly. can't remember nothing about the game though as i was only 5 and a half.
my dad used to take me to home games and i started going by myself around about 1980ish on the roberts bus from wheatley hill. started doing aways a couple of years later, the first one being aston villa.
no idea what the first game at home was, i'm always astounded how folk can remember.
 
Ramone said:
40 for me, wood with ropes on and cowboy suppers. Away games were Wembley and cup runs until about 97/98 when didn’t have to rely on my brilliant Dad who was the guy whom built my wood on ropes thing.
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Absolutely loved them from the chippy opposite the Roker end

My first ever game

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I realised a couple of years ago that my first game which was on 26 August 1961 v Stoke City (won 2 -1) marked Brian Clough's debut at Roker Park. It was his third game for the Lads but the first two games of that season (Walsall and Liverpool) were away . Don't ask me how he played my memory is a little vague
 
I was getting interested in football growing up in Washington in 1971/72 as a 9 to 10 year old born in Newcastle to a family that were all from Newcastle in mams side and Liverpool on my dad's side. Washington then (as it is now) was very split so my school mates and neighbours were mixed between following Makems or Mags. Back then we didn't have the saturation coverage of football we have now, just match of the day highlights of a couple of ganes on a Saturday and Shoot or The Big Match on ITV on Sunday. My first experience of a real match was in 1972 when my dad took my younger brother and me to a reserve match at as St James Park to see Newcastle v Stoke, sognificant because it was the comeback game of Gordon Banks following his car crash and loss of an eye. However, my best friends at school were Sunderland supporters and as the 1973 cup run grew pace suddenly Sunderland were in the news and the fervoyr was building. In the spring of 1973 (can't remember exactly when ) my friends dad took us to a home league match v Portsmouth which we won and that was me hooked by the whole experience of Roker Park stood in the Roker End which seemed massive. From that day despite my dad, grandad and brother being Newcastle fans and them still claiming the mags were a better team because they wete in division one, my allegiance to SAFC never faultered. From 1974 I started going regularly to matches with school mates never missing a home match. I started work in 1980 as a marine engineer cadet and bought my first season ticket. Working away from home at sea limited my attendance for a number of years but I have been to as many matches as I can and I have always been red n white. I am pleased to say both my daughters (now in their early 30's) are also red n white daft as is my 7 year old grandson who along with his parents has a season ticket. After all the ups and downs of the last 50 plus years as a Sunderland fan I have never felt prouder of our club than the last two seasons and being at the SOL alongside my daughter and grandson looking right over the Roker End goal line as Ballard scored against Coventry and also with them for the win against Chelsea two weeks ago were emotional and very memorable and special moments that make up for the years of hurt.

SAFC TID !!!!!
 
Lord Potts said:
I realised a couple of years ago that my first game which was on 26 August 1961 v Stoke City (won 2 -1) marked Brian Clough's debut at Roker Park. It was his third game for the Lads but the first two games of that season (Walsall and Liverpool) were away . Don't ask me how he played my memory is a little vague
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Arkle said:
First real memory is the 73 cup final so I guess 53 years.
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Exactly same for me. Remember travelling down to London in a car with my Dad, Uncle and Grandad. Sitting in the back, taking the filter out of all the tabs my Grandad smoked en route and lining them along the window. Stayed at my cousins whilst they went to the match. Don't remember anything else at all!
 
Sept 68. Almost 58 years. Man City at home. Dad was a Newcastle fan ( we would later do NuFc one week and the Lads the next).
I was 8 years old. We lost 4-0. Hooked.
This season has been amazing. Living in Germany and forever trying to raise our profile to get Granit Xhaka here then do so well has been wonderful. Kids at school discuss our games.
Loved the Ready years but this is also great but for different reasons.
 
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